[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2726 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2726

    To provide for improved instruction in mathematics and science 
                               education.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 23, 1993

  Mr. Sawyer introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
    To provide for improved instruction in mathematics and science 
                               education.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Mathematics Education Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds that--
            (1) society is entering a new age of information;
            (2) effects of technological innovation on business, 
        government, and industry are paralleled by dramatic changes in 
        the physical, social, and life sciences;
            (3) more than many other areas of study and application, 
        mathematics is taking new directions;
            (4) although rapid changes are occurring, teaching 
        mathematics has remained relatively unchanged;
            (5) to equip students for productive, fulfilling lives in 
        the information age, the definition of success in mathematics 
        is being transformed; and
            (6) to meet these challenges the Federal Government needs 
        to transform its method of support for equal access to quality 
        instruction at all levels of mathematics to reflect the 
        directions given in the Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for 
        School Mathematics established by the National Council of 
        Teachers of Mathematics.

SEC. 3. PURPOSE.

    It is the purpose of this Act--
            (1) to create an innovative funding program that will 
        provide the schools of the Nation with the ability to improve 
        mathematics education programs at all grade levels; and
            (2) to support locally-based mathematics education programs 
        that take into account and use existing resources of the 
        community with regards to school-based mathematics programs, 
        including schools of higher education, State departments of 
        education, business personnel, labor unions, and members of 
        professional associations.

SEC. 4. ESTABLISHMENT OF FUND.

    (a) Establishment.--There is established the Fund for the 
Improvement of Mathematics (referred to in the Act as the ``Fund'') to 
provide grants to schools to improve mathematics education and 
implement the Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School 
Mathematics.
    (b) Coordination.--The Secretary of Education shall select a 
national mathematics education professional association which has 
demonstrated at least a ten-year professional and financial commitment 
to improving mathematics education in the Nation to administer the 
Fund. To be eligible to administer the Fund, an association shall 
provide assurances that such association shall--
            (1) implement the goals of the Curriculum and Evaluation 
        Standards for School Mathematics;
            (2) remain involved during the five-year funding period and 
        the succeeding five-year period;
            (3) assess progress of schools to improve mathematics 
        education; and
            (4) give priority in funding and assistance to schools in 
        the most disadvantaged areas in a State.
    (c) Limitation.--Not more than $250,000 during the first year and 
$125,000 during each of the following four years shall be used by the 
association selected to administer the Fund for administrative costs.

SEC. 5. GRANTS.

    The Fund shall provide grants of not more than $50,000 each year to 
schools and institutions of higher education to improve mathematics 
education and to meet the goals outlined in the Curriculum and 
Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics.

SEC. 6. APPLICATIONS.

    In addition to such other information and assurances as the 
administrator of the Fund may reasonably require, applications to the 
Fund for grants and contracts shall--
            (1) describe the students to be served, and the resources 
        that exist in the community and school;
            (2) describe assessment measurements to be used to evaluate 
        mathematics education improvements;
            (3) describe expected improvements in mathematics education 
        during the ten-year period beginning on the date of the 
        enactment of this Act; and
            (4) describe how other resources that exist in the 
        community shall be used to improve mathematics education.

SEC. 7. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    There are authorized to be appropriated $5,000,000 for each of the 
fiscal years 1994 through 1997.

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